Faucet.



L. L. ROWE. M11031, APPLICATION FILED OUT. 18, 1910.

Patented July 16. 1912. I

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFTCE.

. LEVI L. ROWE, OF BOSTON. MASSAGI-IUSE'FIS.

FAUCET.

1,032,706. srecificfltirm of Letteis Patent. Patented July 16. 1912.

Application filed October 18, 1910. Serial No. 587,723

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, LEVI L. Rows, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Faucets, of which the following is a specification.

My faucet is more especially'designed for use with chocolate and milk urns and in other places where the faucet requires to be very carefully cleaned although it is useful in other cases. WVhere cleanliness is a matter of absolute necessity a faucet containing a long delivery tube as well as a faucet which contains a large number of parts is undesirable, for every part of such a faucet must be thoroughly cleaned at least as often as once a day in order to prevent the souring of the milk drawn through it or the.

clogging with sedimentfrom' chocolate or other liquid. For this reason a faucet having a very short delivery tube is very desirable, in fact almost essential, but the difficulty with such. faucets as heretofore constructed has been that the liquid being under some pressure starts to run through the faucet before the passage is fully open and hence the stream acquires a rotary movement which causes the liquid to be thrown out sidewise in all directions on leaving the faucet, often spreading outside the rim of the cup or receptacle into which the liquid .is to be drawn. The only attempt so far as I know to overcome this difliculty has been by dividing the outlet passage by a partition so that the stream is separated into two parts. The disadvantage-of this structure lies in the fact that it is extremely dillicult to keep such a faucet clean as the inner side or edge of the partition is hard to reach and the faucet as a whole is no easier to kecp clean than the ordinary faucet with a long nozzle. In the ase of the faucet with along nozzle the swirling or rotary movement of the stream is reduced probably because of the frictional engagement: of the stream with the long interior surface of the nozzle. l have found that instead of using a; long nozzle to prevent this rotary movement or using a short nozzle having a. partition across it; which has the same fault with rcgard to cleanliness the long nozzle. the same result can be'sccured by making the outlet or delivery portion of the nozzle angular in cross sectlon, that IS, in providing it with one or more flat walls so that when the faucet 1s My invention then will be understood b reference to the drawings in which- 1 r figure 1 1s a vertical section of a tancq embodying my invention, Fig. 2 being a perspective view of the plug. and Fig. 3-4; side View thereof. F1g. l 1s a side elevation 7 at the inlet end, the handle being removed,

and Figs. 5 and 6 are diagrammatic views.

for the purpose of illust'ating the fault above referred to and its correction.

In Figs. 1 to et, inclusive, A is a cast ng" provided. with a threaded end bymeans of which it is screwed into a coupling B for attachment to the pipe (not shown) running from the source of supply. The cast-' mg A has a horizontal passage a loadingfrom the coupling into its interior and "it has a vertical conical chamber into which sets the plug C. This plug is providodwi-th. the ordinary stem C which carries the/l andle C and it is held in place within llic 1I'Gi'; tical passage or chamber in the casting by means of a screw cap I) which surrounds the stem C, being provided with an (naming for this purpose and also with the spring c compressing the plug C so that it malics a good joint witlithe inncuwall of the chamber in the casting A. 'll-\(, ....plug has within it a passage 1) whichuir the form of my invention shown is square in cross sccliou. that is to say it comprises four walls 1' at right angles to each other, the passage loading from the bottom of the plug tup through its side to register with the passage a loading from the coupling ll.

Upon an examination of Figs. land (3 the utility of my invention will be understood. ln Fig. 5 the plug is lcllcrcd t and the passage through it l This passage is round in cross section and it will l c soon that as the liquid. flows out from lhc coupling inlo thc plug it acquit-cs a swirling motion which throws it in an uubn-lla-likc form, the extent-of throw dcpcnding upon the pressure under which the slrcam runs. This is because when the opening in the plug begins to register with the oullol through the coupling the liquid first strikes the interior circular wall of the passage in the plug and there being noobstruct-ion to it it continues to make a circuit of the passage, moving presumably in spiral form. In the case of my improved plug, as shown in Fig. 6, when the stream first leaves the passage in the coupling instead of engaging a smooth circular wall it. engages a flat surface or surfaces 6 which changes its directic-n at once. and prevents the swirling referred to. These walls act as it were as abutments againstwhich and so loses its force in a horizontal direction and proceeds to fall in a substantially direct line into the receptacle held below it.

I do not mean to limit myself to the exact construction of the delivery passage shown in the drawings nor to the use of such a de' livery passage in the type of faucet above described as it is evident that it is capable of use under various circumstances. The four-sided passage I believe to be best for all ordinary purposes although under certain circumstances where the faucet is large and the stream not very powerful the pas- I sage may be differently shaped.

Vhat I claim as my invention is 1. In a faucet, a casting having a horizonthe liquid strikes tal passage and a vertical chamber to receive a plug, in combination with said plug, said plug having a single passage therethrough angular in cross section and having substantially flat walls to receive and direct the passage of liquid, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a faucet structure, a casting having an unobstructed horizontal passage circular in cross section, and means for coupling said passage to a pipe, said casting having also a vertical passage therethrough to receive a plug, in combination with a plug located to turn in said vertical passage, said plug hav ing an unobstructed delivery passage tlll'fillgll it adapted to register with the unobstructed horizontal passage in said casting and having flat walls, and said plug terminating just below the horizontal passage in said casting whereby its vertical passage will be reduced to a minimum of length and it will deliver its stream without swirling.

LEVI L. ROWE. Witnesses:

M. E. FLAHERTY, Gronon LANGTON.

addressing the "Commissioner of iatents. 

